Re: [Simh] RT11 dists in RX02 floppy images and SIMH RY support

2014-03-03 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2014-03-03 15:01, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons wrote: Hello, Both in trailing-edge.com and in bitsavers there are some floppy images that should contain the RT-11 5.4g kit. I have tried to use those images in simg and I get: - A system crash when I try to boot from them, attaching the disks to

Re: [Simh] [HECnet] TOPS-20 V4.1 DECnet

2014-05-02 Thread Johnny Billquist
paul -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net Personal stuff http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh -- Johnny Billquist || "

Re: [Simh] [HECnet] TOPS-20 V4.1 DECnet

2014-05-02 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2014-05-03 00:52, Cory Smelosky wrote: On Sat, 3 May 2014, Johnny Billquist wrote: Hi. On 2014-05-02 20:02, s...@swabhawat.com wrote: Hi guys, Well, if it truly is Phase II, then yeah, I would not expect it to work. But I was pretty sure it was Phase III, in which case it should work

Re: [Simh] SIMH tape images to real tapes

2014-05-17 Thread Johnny Billquist
o/simh <http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh> ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus

Re: [Simh] SIMH tape images to real tapes

2014-05-17 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2014-05-18 05:10, Rich Alderson wrote: Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 18:26:33 +0200 From: Johnny Billquist On 2014-05-15 23:10, Clem Cole wrote: In 9-track world, the end of each file is mark as a single meta record (tape mark), Two in the row marks end-of-tape. So the when you write a

Re: [Simh] New NIC not recognized

2014-05-25 Thread Johnny Billquist
quot;show xq eth" would list all existing interfaces though. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive!

Re: [Simh] Standalone boot on vax8600?

2014-07-08 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2014-07-08 01:50, Henry Bent wrote: How are standalone programs loaded and run on the 8600? On the 7x0 I can do "load -o boot 0" and "run 2" and that will run a standalone boot. When I do that in the 8600 sim I get a newline and then the program just loops forever. Alternately, does anyone

Re: [Simh] Standalone boot on vax8600?

2014-07-08 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2014-07-09 02:31, Matt Burke wrote: On 08/07/2014 12:50, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2014-07-08 01:50, Henry Bent wrote: How are standalone programs loaded and run on the 8600? On the 7x0 I can do "load -o boot 0" and "run 2" and that will run a standalone boot. When I

Re: [Simh] Standalone boot on vax8600?

2014-07-10 Thread Johnny Billquist
ress 60 But note, that is not not through VMB, so any discussions about R5 previously is not relevant here. Also, the start address is very much depending on the actual image loaded. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus

Re: [Simh] Standalone boot on vax8600?

2014-07-10 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2014-07-11 02:22, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote: On Jul 10, 2014 2:02 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > > On 2014-07-11 01:08, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote: > > On Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: > >> On Thu, 10 Jul 2014, Henry Bent wro

Re: [Simh] Standalone boot on vax8600?

2014-07-10 Thread Johnny Billquist
d with on the other (qbus) VAX simulators? - Mark ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com <mailto:Simh@trailing-edge.com> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh

Re: [Simh] Standalone boot on vax8600?

2014-07-12 Thread Johnny Billquist
slave 0 boot device not found root device? -- And I can then interact with the console, characters are displayed normally, etc. -Henry On 12 July 2014 19:33, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm mailto:m...@infocomm.com>> wrote: On Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: >

Re: [Simh] Standalone boot on vax8600?

2014-07-12 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2014-07-13 04:52, Henry Bent wrote: Sure, I'll work on getting an Ultrix image in a usable state so that I can upload it. Actually, thinking about it, it should be enough with just the boot file that you are using. Johnny -Henry On 12 July 2014 22:50, Johnny Bill

Re: [Simh] Standalone boot on vax8600?

2014-07-12 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2014-07-13 05:01, Henry Bent wrote: Here you go: http://occs.cs.oberlin.edu/~hbent/vaxultrix/boot.gz Thanks. I'll see if I have some time to look at it today. Johnny -Henry On 12 July 2014 22:57, Johnny Billquist mailto:b...@softjar.se>> wrote: On 2014-07-13 0

Re: [Simh] Standalone boot on vax8600?

2014-07-23 Thread Johnny Billquist
suspect you or someone else will fix those soon anyway. Johnny On 2014-07-13 07:18, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2014-07-13 05:01, Henry Bent wrote: Here you go: http://occs.cs.oberlin.edu/~hbent/vaxultrix/boot.gz Thanks. I'll see if I have some time to look at it today. J

Re: [Simh] Physical disk access

2014-09-29 Thread Johnny Billquist
experience doing this? Mark already responded on how. I have not done this with simh, but I have done it with e11, and it worked just fine. I'm pretty sure it will work fine with simh also. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I&

Re: [Simh] Feature request

2014-12-06 Thread Johnny Billquist
Mark missed how it works. Psilocybe:bqt/newbridge# ./t.sh kaka foo bar ./t.sh kaka Psilocybe:bqt/newbridge# cat t.sh #!/bin/echo foo bar kex Psilocybe:bqt/newbridge# Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psyc

Re: [Simh] VAX 780 emulation - How to install Netbsd

2014-12-28 Thread Johnny Billquist
at you know a bit more of how you do what... Also, if booting older machines using VMB, you need to know the magic bits of R5, since it requires the same treatment as Ultrix. R5=0 will not boot NetBSD (or Ultrix). Johnny -- Johnny Billquist ||

Re: [Simh] VAX 780 emulation - How to install Netbsd

2014-12-28 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2014-12-28 18:59, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote: On Sunday, December 28, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2014-12-28 18:02, Anders Magnusson wrote: But; when this was done virtually no big VAXen were still running, so the support for them may have bit-rotten. This is what

Re: [Simh] VAX 780 emulation - How to install Netbsd

2014-12-28 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2014-12-28 20:47, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote: On Sunday, December 28, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2014-12-28 18:59, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote: On Sunday, December 28, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: Also, if booting older machines using VMB, you need

Re: [Simh] ALTAIR thinko?

2015-02-03 Thread Johnny Billquist
one of my friends got one for his birthday that summer with a whole 256k bytes of memory [and I remember us drooling over it]. By late '77 I did manage to score a KIM-1 with 1K of ram (which I still have) -- FYI the KIM-1 it was purely hex. Clem -- Johnny Billquis

Re: [Simh] Getting rsxs to run on the pdp11 emulator

2015-03-03 Thread Johnny Billquist
Quick comments... On 2015-03-03 18:25, Rhialto wrote: On Tue 03 Mar 2015 at 11:00:15 -0500, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote: I've attached an installation log from those above mentioned tapes done on SIMH just a short while ago. As can be seen they are Y2K Ah, with a quick looks I see 2 diffe

Re: [Simh] Getting rsxs to run on the pdp11 emulator

2015-03-03 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-03-03 20:45, Bill Cunningham wrote: - Original Message - From: To: Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 1:38 PM Subject: Re: [Simh] Getting rsxs to run on the pdp11 emulator On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 13:28:27 -0500 Henry Bent wrote: The gunkies.org wiki has done a pretty fair job of co

Re: [Simh] Getting rsxs to run on the pdp11 emulator

2015-03-03 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-03-03 21:31, Sergey Oboguev wrote: There is a couple of publicly accessible system running RSX-11M+. [...] Mim.Update.UU.SE. Just telnet to it. Login with guest/guest You can also access that machine as http://madame.update.uu.se/, or with ftp as ftp://madame.update.uu.se/ It runs

Re: [Simh] Getting rsxs to run on the pdp11 emulator

2015-03-03 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-03-03 22:26, Rhialto wrote: On Tue 03 Mar 2015 at 13:05:50 -0500, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote: My simulator config is big, and somewhat redundant, I actually have the installation phase and its tape swap automated with: SET TU0 LOCK ATTACH TU0 TAP\BB-J0830-01.M01_RSX11M+_V4.6_1999.ta

Re: [Simh] Getting rsxs to run on the pdp11 emulator

2015-03-03 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-03-03 22:40, Rhialto wrote: On Tue 03 Mar 2015 at 22:08:29 +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote: attach tm0 BB-J0830-01.M01_RSX11M+_V4.6_1999.tap This would be the full system. attach tm1 BB-J0830-01.L01_RSX11M+_V4.6_BRU_1999.tap This is slightly weird, as the normal RSX distribution of

Re: [Simh] Getting rsxs to run on the pdp11 emulator

2015-03-03 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-03-03 23:16, Rhialto wrote: On Tue 03 Mar 2015 at 22:41:18 +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote: Something very obvious if you know the actual hardware. I may be a bit spoiled by (Net)BSD, which prints a nice device tree when it boots: you can see which devices are attached to which buses

Re: [Simh] Getting rsxs to run on the pdp11 emulator

2015-03-03 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-03-03 23:32, Al Kossow wrote: the smaller bootable tape is for an rl02 RSXMPRL02 Ah! It's the RSX-11M-PLUS PREGEN system, I suspect. For people who don't know. The RSX distribution tape holds several savesets. RSX11MPBL87 is the standard baseline system. MPBL87SRC holds the sources. (N

Re: [Simh] Getting rsxs to run on the pdp11 emulator

2015-03-04 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-03-03 21:12, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote: On 3 March 2015 at 14:45, Bill Cunningham wrote: Thats what I am looking for. Simh instructions. I think from some kind of OS guide for RSXs one might be able to generate the system. Am I corerct did Dave Cutler with MS have anything to

Re: [Simh] Regarding "Cutler THE father of VMS" myth

2015-03-04 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-03-04 20:18, Bill Cunningham wrote: - Original Message - From: To: "SIMH" Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 7:45 AM Subject: Re: [Simh] Regarding "Cutler THE father of VMS" myth Incredible post! This list is worth following for the scope of information alone, even if you never

Re: [Simh] Regarding "Cutler THE father of VMS" myth

2015-03-04 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-03-04 20:23, Bill Cunningham wrote: - Original Message - From: "Johnny Billquist" To: Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 2:20 PM Subject: Re: [Simh] Regarding "Cutler THE father of VMS" myth On 2015-03-04 20:18, Bill Cunningham wrote: - Original Mes

Re: [Simh] Regarding "Cutler THE father of VMS" myth

2015-03-05 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-03-05 00:22, Sergey Oboguev wrote: From: Clem Cole While I think it bug Dave and others that people did not like his favorite system ... "The New Hacker's Dictionary", MIT Press, 3rd edition: The "New Hacker's Dictionary" is a prime example of history falsification. You should r

Re: [Simh] rsx problem

2015-03-07 Thread Johnny Billquist
t entering a boot command Seems like I need to add frame buffer and windowing support as well as a windowing system to my host system. How about just not starting the console on a telnet port? Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus

Re: [Simh] rsx problem

2015-03-07 Thread Johnny Billquist
port, you'll have it in the same window as you started simh. No need to make things so complicated in the beginning. Jeez. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip em

Re: [Simh] DEC floppy disk interleave questions

2015-03-07 Thread Johnny Billquist
dumped image of the disk, assuming you copy all blocks, including the bad block list. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Rea

Re: [Simh] Regarding "Cutler THE father of VMS" myth

2015-03-08 Thread Johnny Billquist
"down" - (aka P/V). Well, in all fairness, semaphores were used on railways already in the 19th century... Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se |

Re: [Simh] Simulating the PDP-15/76 Unichannel

2015-03-16 Thread Johnny Billquist
itely non-portable solutions, though. Maybe create an abstract layer for simh shared memory, which you then use. And then you just need to port the shared memory module between OSes, and do things in which ever way it should be done on that OS. Johnny

Re: [Simh] Simulating the PDP-15/76 Unichannel

2015-03-17 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-03-17 08:36, Sergey Oboguev wrote: From: E. Groenenberg Any current & reasonably seasoned Unix or derivative has shmat() & shmdt() (or equivalent) calls for attaching & detaching a segment of a given size. Also MS$ has this [...] so a common API for SIMH would be fairly easy. [ ...]

Re: [Simh] Simulating the PDP-15/76 Unichannel

2015-03-19 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-03-19 04:21, Timothe Litt wrote: On 18-Mar-15 20:34, Rich Alderson wrote: [1] Developed mostly from RSX-11M, with a few nods to RSX-11D, at least as far as the doc writers were concerned. -11M, but -11D device drivers and a heavy dependence on event flags. No memory mapping; it was

Re: [Simh] Simulating the PDP-15/76 Unichannel

2015-03-19 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-03-19 14:13, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2015-03-19 04:21, Timothe Litt wrote: On 18-Mar-15 20:34, Rich Alderson wrote: [1] Developed mostly from RSX-11M, with a few nods to RSX-11D, at least as far as the doc writers were concerned. -11M, but -11D device drivers and a heavy

Re: [Simh] RSX-20F

2015-03-19 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-03-19 15:15, Timothe Litt wrote: On 19-Mar-15 09:13, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2015-03-19 04:21, Timothe Litt wrote: On 18-Mar-15 20:34, Rich Alderson wrote: [1] Developed mostly from RSX-11M, with a few nods to RSX-11D, at least as far as the doc writers were concerned. -11M

Re: [Simh] RSX-20F

2015-03-19 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-03-19 23:27, Timothe Litt wrote: I've definitely been using RSX-20F on a KL-10 myself a few times. On our machine it certainly did not take anything close to a minute to get the command parser. It took a couple of seconds. Did you run on a DECtape based system or something? Actually, si

Re: [Simh] RSX-20F

2015-03-19 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-03-19 23:57, Timothe Litt wrote: On 19-Mar-15 18:43, Johnny Billquist wrote: All true. Except I don't think VMS actually do relocation at load time. The VAX instruction set was capable enough that pretty much all code you ever wrote was already PIC. The only things to resolve

Re: [Simh] rsx11m-v3.2

2015-03-25 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-03-25 22:32, Bill Cunningham wrote: I am going to try once again with simh's pdp 11/70 setting generating the rsx11m-v3.2. From this page I mentioned before. http://home.earthlink.net/~n1be/pdp11/PDP11.html I was about 10 yo in 1979 so I don't remember these machines. But the pics I

Re: [Simh] Pasting into the console

2015-04-03 Thread Johnny Billquist
rogram buffer, which gives you another limit. RSX always first buffer characters internally, since it do not actually echo them until they are actually read by the program. (Unlike Unix for example.) Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus

Re: [Simh] TSV05 on PDP-11/VAX

2015-04-13 Thread Johnny Billquist
uch a long time to execute... Probing for some device you have SYSGENed, but isn't in simh? CON will eventually time out on those, but it could take some time, especially if something else is responding to the CSR address. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist

Re: [Simh] Stand alone FORTH interpreters

2015-04-22 Thread Johnny Billquist
MH? http://www.forth.org/fig-forth/contents.html There you'll find, among others, also the PDP-11 version. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: PDP-10 simulation: DEUNA support help needed

2015-04-27 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-04-27 20:56, Cory Smelosky wrote: On Mon, 27 Apr 2015, Timothe Litt wrote: One clue: iprout.mac references an IP address owned by the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. ...This is getting absurd. Just how many stacks exist?! Just as a clarification/expansion... KICKI was/is

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: PDP-10 simulation: DEUNA support help needed

2015-04-27 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-04-27 22:22, Johnny Eriksson wrote: Johnny Billquist wrote: Just as a clarification/expansion... KICKI was/is a KI-10 (sometimes 1, sometimes 2, and sometimes 3 cpus) running in Stockholm many years ago. It is owned by Peter Lothberg, and members of the Stacken Computer Club had

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: PDP-10 simulation: DEUNA support help needed

2015-04-30 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-05-01 00:21, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote: On Apr 30, 2015 1:46 PM, Clem Cole wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Rich Alderson wrote: >> >> Striping came along with redundant arrays of >> inexpensive disks. At $50,000 a drive, RP07s were not candidates. ;-) > >

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: PDP-10 simulation: DEUNA support help needed

2015-04-30 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-05-01 02:03, Timothe Litt wrote: On 30-Apr-15 19:13, Cory Smelosky wrote: On Thu, 30 Apr 2015, Timothe Litt wrote: In DEC, volume shadowing was first built into the HSC50 (a CI-based disk/tape controller), released in the early 80s. Drives were the 14" RA81 and follow-ons. The early

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: PDP-10 simulation: DEUNA support help needed

2015-04-30 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-05-01 02:41, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2015-05-01 02:03, Timothe Litt wrote: On 30-Apr-15 19:13, Cory Smelosky wrote: On Thu, 30 Apr 2015, Timothe Litt wrote: In DEC, volume shadowing was first built into the HSC50 (a CI-based disk/tape controller), released in the early 80s

Re: [Simh] PDP-12

2015-06-06 Thread Johnny Billquist
wont mind. I'll talk to him. Andreas says: "cool! I'll change to BSD if it helps" Is BSD liberal enough? BSD is more liberal than GPL, which is why GPL is a problem... Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus

Re: [Simh] Pontus asks Is [the] BSD [license] liberal enough?

2015-06-08 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-06-08 09:07, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 08:45:14PM -0400, Clem Cole wrote: ​I fear you might be missunderstanding/confusing the "usage" rights and the "ownership" rights.​ Perhaps, yes. I think the larger difference is that you (Pontus) are talking about if you m

Re: [Simh] Pontus asks Is [the] BSD [license] liberal enough?

2015-06-08 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-06-08 13:36, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 01:24:39PM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote: Which is essentially anyone. Since, if you do release it, you cannot restrict who can use it. The point I'm trying to make is that B has no obligation to anyone but C. If C star

Re: [Simh] Pontus asks Is [the] BSD [license] liberal enough?

2015-06-08 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-06-08 14:09, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 12:57:21PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote: GPLv2 states: 2b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed a

Re: [Simh] Pontus asks Is [the] BSD [license] liberal enough?

2015-06-08 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-06-08 15:35, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 03:21:51PM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote: Uh... You cannot choose who to distribute it to. That is the whole point of GPL, and is what puts it apart from just any company copyright control. Certainly I can :) at least in the

Re: [Simh] [HECnet] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2015-06-08 Thread Johnny Billquist
on is also available through ftp on Madame, or also at http://madame.update.uu.se/tcpipdoc I hope people will find this latest release useful, and my next project right now is telnet. Johnny On 2015-01-16 04:47, Johnny Billquist wrote: There have been lots of positive comments, and obvi

Re: [Simh] OS development

2015-06-11 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-06-11 03:25, Timothe Litt wrote: There are quite a few Y2K divots to tackle. One tricky issue is DAP, as that's cross-OS. (And now there's VMSSOFTWARE (the company) to consider.) In general, some thought needs to be given to what categories of change are acceptable, and where. The main

Re: [Simh] OS development

2015-06-12 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-06-12 11:53, Timothe Litt wrote: On 11-Jun-15 09:17, Johnny Billquist wrote: DAP is good until 2070 or so. If the DAP implementation on Tops-10/TOPS-20 don't do things right at the moment, it's just a local bug within those OSes then. RSX and VMS (maybe others) have had DAP

Re: [Simh] [HECnet] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2015-06-12 Thread Johnny Billquist
find this latest release useful, and my next project right now is telnet (this time really...). Johnny On 2015-06-08 19:03, Johnny Billquist wrote: About three months since I last announced anything. There have been various development since, and I figured I should encourage people who are

Re: [Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2015-06-12 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-06-12 17:21, Johnny Billquist wrote: Aw, chucks. After reading the other day about someone who was talking about VMS and the wish for DHCP, I actually decided that it was time that BQTCP/IP also got DHCP. So, without further ado - I cut a new release. One bugfix for a bug in the TCP state

Re: [Simh] OS development

2015-06-14 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-06-13 12:46, Timothe Litt wrote: On 12-Jun-15 11:03, Johnny Billquist wrote: RSX don't have phase V either. Yes, the year field in DAP is just two digits. But it's not 19xx. It's actually 1970 - 2069 or some such. Thanks for the data point. It's not that simp

Re: [Simh] OS development

2015-06-14 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-06-14 15:56, dott.Piergiorgio d' Errico wrote: Il 14/06/2015 14:27, Johnny Billquist ha scritto: They only have papers saying that they still need to adhere to the conditions that they don't even have copies of. meaning, they need to adhere to conditions they don't k

Re: [Simh] OS development

2015-06-14 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-06-14 23:30, Rhialto wrote: On Sun 14 Jun 2015 at 14:27:12 +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote: Either way, other systems decided to define the two year field as representing 1970 to 2069. Deal with it, or decide to be incompatible. I noticed that in the RSX version of the On Disk Format

Re: [Simh] OS development

2015-06-14 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-06-14 23:37, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2015-06-14 23:30, Rhialto wrote: As for the "New UTC (128 bit) format": that's probably documented somewhere. But I haven't found it. Native VMS times are 64-bits. DTSS uses an opaque 128-bit structure that may be the basis f

Re: [Simh] OS development

2015-06-14 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-06-15 00:01, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote: On 14 June 2015 at 17:37, Johnny Billquist wrote: To be brutally honest, I somehow doubt HP would try to sue somebody in the PDP-11 world today, but the question is how much you would like to gamble on it. Could we just have some blackhat

Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator.

2015-06-19 Thread Johnny Billquist
I did successfully boot a Ultrix-4.0 tap file from bitsavers in the vax andra microvax2 simulator. But how can I do that on the vax750 simulator? Doing "boot tq0" give "Command not allowed". Although help file indicate it is a valid command!? Any help appreciated!

Re: [Simh] How to detect telnet disconnection.

2015-06-21 Thread Johnny Billquist
pped" connection. It is closed, for one reason or another. And that is it. Or could you be more specific what you are looking for? Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softj

Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: TU58 device for PDP-11s

2015-06-26 Thread Johnny Billquist
re is something for linux too. But it sounds like a worthy cause. Bill ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a

[Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2015-06-30 Thread Johnny Billquist
I'm happy to announce a new release of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS. Since I'm broadening the scope of the announcement slightly, a more complete list of features is included, and not just what changed since last. For anyone who is currently running TCP/IP for RSX, I strongly encourage you to updat

Re: [Simh] C64 and C128

2015-06-30 Thread Johnny Billquist
___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder bo

Re: [Simh] C64 and C128

2015-06-30 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-07-01 04:13, Bill Cunningham wrote: - Original Message - *From:* Johnny Billquist <mailto:b...@softjar.se> *To:* simh@trailing-edge.com <mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 30, 2015 10:07 PM *Subject:* Re: [Simh] C64 and C128

Re: [Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2015-07-01 Thread Johnny Billquist
web-pages, and is running this software. Yes, I use that IRC client myself every day. (I'm also running this on a real 11/93 at home, by the way. Speed is pretty ok.) Johnny Mike On Jun 30, 2015 7:46 AM, "Johnny Billquist" mailto:b...@softjar.se>> wrote:

Re: [Simh] Hardware fidelity in the VAX family simulators

2015-07-08 Thread Johnny Billquist
ago, not sure if you even remember that one Bob). As time allows, I'm happy to poke more at the machines I know. (Mainly those two I guess...) Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psyc

Re: [Simh] Hardware fidelity in the VAX family simulators

2015-07-08 Thread Johnny Billquist
rom. Surely not the TU58... Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip&quo

Re: [Simh] Hardware fidelity in the VAX family simulators

2015-07-08 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-07-09 02:16, Robert G. Schaffrath wrote: On Jul 8, 2015, at 8:10 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2015-07-09 01:57, Robert Armstrong wrote: I haven't found microcode sources or listings for the 750, 730, MicroVAX I, or 8600, for example. FWIW, the 725/730 was somewhat uniq

Re: [Simh] Running simh vax on amazon EC2

2015-07-09 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-07-09 19:45, BDC wrote: Is there ssh server for vax vms? Yes. Process Software's tcpware includes ssh as far as I can remember. Johnny On Jul 9, 2015, at 12:51 PM, Tom Morris mailto:tfmor...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Bill Deegan mailto:b...@badd

Re: [Simh] VAX vectors

2015-07-09 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-07-09 20:26, Eric Smith wrote: Would anyone mind posting a short assembly snippet of a VAX vector instruction used in context? The only complex instruction I've ever used is the Z-80's "LDIR". Even plain old VAX instructions can be way more complex than LDIR. :-) There are instructions

Re: [Simh] Off topic: ULTRIX question

2015-07-11 Thread Johnny Billquist
ine or ten years ago. Seriously, there are many issues with keeping Ultrix systems running, so when other hardware became available, people moved away pretty quickly. So I doubt you will find any place where people are still actively discussing Ultrix. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist

Re: [Simh] Off topic: ULTRIX question

2015-07-12 Thread Johnny Billquist
did back then. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol __

Re: [Simh] Off topic: ULTRIX question

2015-07-12 Thread Johnny Billquist
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Re: [Simh] DEC floppy disk interleave questions

2015-07-16 Thread Johnny Billquist
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Re: [Simh] off-topic basic translator

2015-08-05 Thread Johnny Billquist
7;t want to pay for a product, as this is just hobbyist use for personal programs I wrote thanks Dan. ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http:/

Re: [Simh] off-topic basic translator

2015-08-05 Thread Johnny Billquist
Sigh! Spelling is worse than normal this morning... On 2015-08-05 10:58, Johnny Billquist wrote: Not adressing Göra specifically. "Göran". VAX Basic is not like GW-BASIC. I suspect the differences are large enough that we could almost call it two different programming languages.

Re: [Simh] off-topic basic translator

2015-08-05 Thread Johnny Billquist
Aug 2015 11:03:55 +0200 > Subject: Re: [Simh] off-topic basic translator > > Sigh! Spelling is worse than normal this morning... > > On 2015-08-05 10:58, Johnny Billquist wrote: > > Not adressing Göra specifically. > > "Göran". > > > VAX

Re: [Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2015-08-26 Thread Johnny Billquist
oftware. Magica have been on the internet in the past, but she has been down for quite some time. But I'm happy to announce that the machine is starting to live again. Johnny On 2015-06-30 13:46, Johnny Billquist wrote: I'm happy to announce a new release of TCP/IP for

Re: [Simh] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

2015-08-28 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-08-26 15:44, Johnny Billquist wrote: Close to two months since my last official release, so I figure it's time I do another one. So - there is a new release of BQTCP/IP. I strongly encourage anyone who uses this software to upgrade. A short list of changed: . TCP have been rewritt

Re: [Simh] MicroVax 3900 Networking on a Macbook Air

2015-10-02 Thread Johnny Billquist
Bridge, which doesn’t seem particularly useful for my purposes. Any advice would be appreciated. :) Thanks much, Zack. ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh -- Johnny Billquist

Re: [Simh] MicroVax 3900 Networking on a Macbook Air

2015-10-02 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-10-03 02:55, Johnny Billquist wrote: The problem is that WiFi just isn't ethernet, and you will never get it to work good trying to behave like it is. Unfortunately... libpcap don't change that. (Without libpcap you can never get networking in SimH to work, but even with it,

Re: [Simh] VMS/VDE: Almost there

2015-10-05 Thread Johnny Billquist
en you set up a virtual network, you will have to set the MAC to route packets, and the MAC will be a router. You will need a separate IP network for this virtual network of yours, and if you plan to use DHCP, your MAC will need to act as a DHCP server. Johnny -- Johnny

Re: [Simh] VMS/VDE: Almost there

2015-10-05 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-10-05 17:46, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons wrote: I don't understand what you have done, but you appear to *not* have set up a virtual network on your MAC. Like I said before, WiFi do not work like ethernet, so this will not work. (The fact that your simh VAX is getting an address from a r

Re: [Simh] VMS/VDE: Almost there

2015-10-05 Thread Johnny Billquist
Forgot to comment on one more thing... On 2015-10-05 17:46, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons wrote: I don't understand what you have done, but you appear to *not* have set up a virtual network on your MAC. Like I said before, WiFi do not work like ethernet, so this will not work. (The fact that your

Re: [Simh] VMS/VDE: Almost there

2015-10-05 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-10-05 17:57, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons wrote: Johnny, VDE works at layer 2 and has no idea about IP addressing or routing. Right. But the point was that the VDE should be between just the simh and the MAC, and not bridged with the WiFi. Sounds like it is bridged to the WiFi in this cas

Re: [Simh] VMS/VDE: Almost there

2015-10-05 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-10-05 18:08, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote: On Monday, October 5, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Jordi wrote: Johnny, VDE works at layer 2 and has no idea about IP addressing or routing. Right. But the point was that the VDE should be between just the simh and the MAC, and not bridged with the

Re: [Simh] VMS/VDE: Almost there

2015-10-06 Thread Johnny Billquist
Right. I suspect Rich was actually thinking of the 7 layer OSI model, which DEC tried really hard to implement. (And no, TCP/IP do *not* follow the 7 layer OSI model.) Oh, and the 7 layer OSI model is also called X.200. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist

Re: [Simh] VMS/VDE: Almost there

2015-10-07 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-10-07 15:56, Paul Koning wrote: On Oct 6, 2015, at 7:13 PM, Rich Alderson wrote: From: Zachary Kline Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 09:42:36 -0700 as far as DecNet goes, am I correct in assuming that it's mostly useful for connecting clusters? I'm learning VMS almost entirely on my own, n

Re: [Simh] VMS/VDE: Almost there

2015-10-07 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-10-07 18:43, John Forecast wrote: On Oct 7, 2015, at 9:56 AM, Paul Koning wrote: ... DECNET is available under RSX-11M and RSTS/E on PDP-11s, Tops-10 and TOPS-20 on PDP-10s, and under VMS (and possibly Ultrix, I don't remember for certain) on VAXen, and on VMS follow-on systems. It

Re: [Simh] VMS/VDE: Almost there

2015-10-07 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-10-07 19:31, Gregg Levine wrote: Hello! Remember the keyword in my presentation was "possibly". :-) And shortly after sending it, I realized it was for the other one, RTS-8 not OS/8. (That was based on the discussions on that list you and someone else run remember.) However the big pr

Re: [Simh] VMS/VDE: Almost there

2015-10-07 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-10-07 21:50, John Forecast wrote: On Oct 7, 2015, at 1:16 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2015-10-07 18:43, John Forecast wrote: On Oct 7, 2015, at 9:56 AM, Paul Koning wrote: ... DECNET is available under RSX-11M and RSTS/E on PDP-11s, Tops-10 and TOPS-20 on PDP-10s, and under

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